Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said.

The collapse of an 11-story coal mining plant in Martin County left two workers trapped under the rubble as crews worked to free them Wednesday. One of the workers has since been confirmed dead. But ...

Warrior Met Coal in Tuscaloosa County, one of the leading producers of metallurgical coal in the United States, will pay $250,000 as part of a settlement agreement to fix a coal slurry impoundment and ...

LOGAN, W.Va. -- A coal treatment plant re-opened Wednesday, a day after a ruptured waste pipe spilled 100,000 gallons of coal slurry into two nearby streams, killing fish and raising concerns about ...

In 1966, a spoil-heap landslide crushed Pantglas Primary School in the coal-mining village of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil, killing 144 people.

In 1959, miners in Pennsylvania faced a nightmare when the Susquehanna River broke into an underground coal mine. Water ...

(AP) Slurry pond failures like the one that swallowed a bulldozer and its driver last week at a West Virginia coal mine could be avoided if the waste pits were built to strict construction standards ...

LOUISVILLE - In parts of eastern Kentucky, the recent pictures from Hungary - of red sludge that roared from a factory's reservoir downstream into the Danube River - are all too reminiscent of what ...

On this day 99 years ago -- May 27, 1925 -- the largest industrial disaster in the history of North Carolina happened near the county line between Chatham and Lee counties, a coal mine explosion that ...